Why do some Liberals oppose a national voter ID card it would cut down on voter fraud for both parties?

Answer 1

Liberals appeal to the less educated in america because they always preach the basic take from the rich, give to the poor ideals. The poor typically resent the well off because they never figured out how to get off there asses to get an education or get job skills to better themselves---its the poor me syndrome. A national voting card would mean these typically unmotivated people would actually have to apply for one, and be a citizen, and have no major felonies. If dem's had there way all illegals and prisoners would be able to vote as well.

Answer 2

Because although it could have it's benefits of convenience to the people that run our government, there is an increasing skepticism of our administration and it's intentions for a sort of complete state of controll. This country was founded with very basic rules, very common sense rules, and very much a sense of unique freedom. Much of it's history is the uniqueness of seperation of state and federal government and as we can commonly see, state voters stance on state issues almost always conflicts with the official oppinion of federal law, created by the few elite. So, if I live in a state that I feel represents more how I feel about law, then why would I want to take rights away from that state in the first place? ID's don't cause voter fraud, stupid people cause voter fraud. You have got to be kidding me if you think there is a group of thousands people who go around sneaking into every local town with stolen ID's on voting day. The only fraud that occurs with voting is that they do the math, not us.

Answer 3

for one, is voter fraud a problem?
You really think fraudulant votes pose any threat to legit votes? There's no population of fake voters or wide spread conspiracy to get one person voted over another, except for pushing God's name around like you were on a divine mission. There's neglible numbers of double voters and the dead voting, there's no reason to impose national IDs.

There'll be discrimination at all levels of the voting process. There'll be people who feel left out with this extra step implemented, there'll be workers who only ask IDs from minorities, there'll be people who don't have the IDs and get left out, are all these people less than human and don't deserve to vote? No, it's hard enough to get people to vote, adding an extra layer of steps isn't going to solve a nonexistant problem.

Besides, wouldn't that cash be better spent on other things, of course I can say schools and social welfare, but I'll be lying, that money will go to whatever the Government feels apro, but still, setting up a national voter ID? that'll be billions, anything less would make the program a joke.

Answer 4

We don't need them. We have driver's liscenses registered in each state. That's plenty of ID. If your state has a lot of counterfiet driver's liscneses than you need to work to get a more sophisticated state liscense.

Framing your quesiton around the word "liberals" as if it's something bad, taints your quesiton. In reality, it is the "true conservative" who is more likely to vote against a national ID card because a true conservative wants to minimise the role of governemt and maximise the role of the state and the individual. But your use of the word Liberal marks you as a NeoConservative which is really not a conservative at all, but an idealogue usually attached to some vague religious philosophy that supercedes our Declaration of Independence, Constitution and Bill of Rights. These documents are what give this country the opportunity to be great and greatly admired because they place value on "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness," not government spying, invasion of privacy, courts without habeus corpus which many countries like Soviet Russia, China and North Korea had to suffer under.
Many Americans, including "Liberals" who you obviously don't understand, Conservatives and definatley Libertarians and Progressives, value their freedom and liberty and will fight any government attempt to encroach on them.
If this was 1776, you would likely be a Tory supporting England. I suggest you spend a year in North Korea before you go around knocking "liberals" and believing national ID cards are so great.

Answer 5

There are some that say that it would make it more difficult to get poor voters to the polls because they will be unable to either afford the id or if it is free they will be unable to take off work to go and get one. Many people in the lower classes are Democrats, or vote that way and the Dems are afraid it will effect voter turn out.
You can look at it both ways, if you study how difficult it is to get to the polls in poor neighborhoods as opposed to upper class and suburban neighborhoods I think you will be surprised.
Personally I think they should be issued, but they need to be completely free and sent to homes by mail, that way there are no problems with getting out to get one.

Answer 6

"some liberals" are not the only ones that oppose a national voter ID. more than a few right wing religious zealots believe any such card would signify the "mark of the beast"in the book of revelations.

Answer 7

Election fraud is clearly a more serious problem than voter fraud. However, if the voter ID program could be done in a way that does not burden the poor than I have no problems with it.

Answer 8

One reason I have heard is that some people can't afford the card. But it only costs about five dollars, and many bills offer to waive the fee.

So I don't know of a good reason.

PS We also don't need a national ID card - it can be done with state IDs, as long as each state sets a high standard.

Answer 9

I imagine that the logic is because of the history if the secret ballot. If people were issued voter ID cards then who knows who would have access to that information or how it would be used.

Also with identity theft becoming the fastest growing crime in the US there would probably be liability issues involved too.

Answer 10

Why did GOP control all three branches of GOVT and NOT establish national voter ID card ? or any type of national ID that would eliminate voter fraud, illegal hiring and terrorists infiltration ?